Defining the Soul is Difficult

The soul can be difficult to define. The great theologian Karl Barth confessed, “We shall search the Old and New Testaments in vain for a theory of the relation between the soul and body.” Your soul is a mystery—a beautiful, powerful, wonderful, mysterious part of you. It cannot be weighed on a scale. But your soul is constantly at work in your life.

Theologian Ray Anderson said, “The soul is the ‘whole person’ existing in a bodily form and state.” Anderson says it well: the soul exists in a bodily form. Christianity does…